Awesome, I was lucky to see Rainbow 4 times but three of them were in the Joe Lyn Turner era plus I saw the band at Manchester Apollo with Graham Bonnet on Vox in 1980.

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Behave yourself....lol

I know nothing about 'the geeeetaaar', I always just put it down to nimble fingers/dexterity, and me having sausage fingers it's never really given me any incentive to even give it a try, it seems many on here may know though, so if I may, what actually makes a great player, am I far off the mark with my thoughts ?

No knickers? Ha!

Gone through 15 pages, and can't believe no-one's mentioned Steve Hackett

An absolute genius. No need for "shredding", Hackett's guitar sound is all about feel and sound. His "tapping" technique was a big influence on Brian May and Eddie Van Halen, in years to come.

Had the pleasure of watching him at the Academy a couple of years ago. I wasn't let down.

No idea how to bring up youtube on here, but have a look at Firth of Fifth, from about 5:30 onwards. You wont be disappointed.

having sausage fingers shouldnt deter you from trying, i have small hands and although i am pretty shit it aint got nothing to do with my hands, learning is the fun part and the first few months is the most frustrating

love Gilmore my fav but this guy is very good too




Ian Bairnson worked with pink floyd and was the guitarist with 70's band Pilot and now with alan parsons project

Some of my favourites
Nuno Bettencourt - some of his stuff is superb.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC24lns6d44


Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare was an awesome album.


Liked Gary Moore back in the day...

Sorry I missed that reply mate, I also have a gimpy hand which won't help, but still may give it a try, was just interested to know if there were any specific characteristics, or a common link bewtween the great players ?

what about jorma kaukonen of jefferson airplane

Yeah, can't take anyone seriously who never takes his fucking hat off.